Target Defeat & Asset Protect

Capabilities

Drawing on over six decades of weapons work and expertise, IMS continues to develop and refine many elements of strike systems, targets, and missile defense programs for the Department of Defense (DoD).Click here to learn more...

Facilities

Supporting all elements of IMS projects including design, prototyping, fabrication, development, testing, and assessments, state-of-the-art facilities enable customers to quickly realize their projects and get the information they need in a fast and effective way. Click here to learn more...

Projects

Supporting the Department of Defense's core mission and ever-evolving needs, IMS leverages its robust background in weapons development to understand and actively engage with a number of weapons technologies, defense mechanisms, delivery systems, and alternative safety-enhancing measures. Click here to learn more...

Solving warfighters' most challenging, urgent and high–risk problems, defending the nation and defeating threats to national security.

Building on more than six decades of experience supporting national security missions, IMS serves as a point of programmatic convergence at Sandia, combining a vast, well-developed suite of expertise, capabilities, and resources. Through a unique integrated capability of designing, developing, and testing advanced flight systems, as well as revolutionary technologies in the areas such as directed energy, target characterization, robotics, warheads, and explosive systems, IMS develops innovative systems and technologies that protect warfighters and promote national security both at home and abroad.

IMS Fact Sheet

Although IMS maintains a diverse set of technological capabilities, it is organized to enable four primary mission areas:

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Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA-0003525.